Research & Development

Research & Development Equipment of the Pipe, Tube and Bar Steel Technology Center

The Pipe, Tube and Bar Steel Technology Center is equipped with dedicated equipment for research, development and testing of pipe, tube and bar steel products. It has equipment for sample preparation, metallographic phase and hardness testing, tubing and casing thread machining, physical performance, hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide corrosion, fatigue of wire rod and cold heading. It can conduct metallographic phase and hardness tests on materials, full-size physical performance tests on steel pipes and tubes, collapse resistance tests on tubing and casing, hydrogen sulfide stress tests, and carbon dioxide corrosion tests. It can also conduct performance tests regarding fatigue, torque and cold heading of wire rod products for auto parts.

This laboratory is for observation of microstructures of metal materials, inclusions identification, image storage, analysis and printing and has conventional material properties testing equipment such as metalloscope, stereomicroscope, Rockwell hardness tester, and microhardness tester.